Tonsilitis Jackson has brothers and sisters named Meningitis, Appendicitis and Peritonitis.

Elvis Presley had two nicknames for his daughter, Lisa Marie Presley: "Yisa" and "Buttonhead".

Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with common names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.

While beta testing a newly compiled computer program, government workers found a real-life Donald Duck! It turns out the programmers used this"fictional" name to check out their military personnel software. The problem was that there was already an Army Engineer with that name. The soldier became famous and was invited as a guest on the Johnny Carson Show as a result of this discovery.

Some people don't like their own first name. The most common reasons given for this dislike are that the names "sound too ugly," that they're old-fashioned, too hard to pronounce, too common, too uncommon, too long, sound too foreign, are too easy for people to joke about, and that they sound too feminine (for men) or too masculine (for women).

A couple in Louisiana named their children after famous colleges: Stanford, Duke, T'Lane, Harvard, Princeton, Auburn and Cornell. The parents' names? Stanford, Sr. and Loyola.

*************************************

Talk about appropriate careers.Real-life names that match the person's profession:

Mr. I. C. Shivers - An Iceman

Mr. Groaner Digger - An Undertaker in Houston

Mr. Wyre and Mr. Tapping - Detectives in New York City

Mr. Thomas Crapper of Crapper, Toilets LTD, London England

Dr. Zoltan Ovary - A Gynecologist

Ms. Justine Tune - Chorister in Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey

Mr. Lawless and Mr. Lynch - Attorneys in Jamaica, New York

Mr. Plummer and Mr. Leek - Plumbers in Norfolk, England

*************************************

Former US President Ulysses S. Grant had the boyhood nickname "Useless".

Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's, named his business after his daughter, Wendy. The funny thing is that Wendy's real name was Melinda Lou. Hmmm.

Film director Ron Howard and his Wife Cheryl gave their children a middle name for the place (like the Carlyle hotel) where each child was conceived.

Actor Keanu Reeve's first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in the Hawaiian language.

Two-thirds of the US population is named in honor of another person. Of these, 60% are named after a relative and 40% are named after a friend or famous person.

------------------
Pindead, Pindrop, Pinocchio, Pincushion, Pinwheel, Pinochle, PinM&M

Those were great, Buttonhead!!

Thanks Yisa!!...:P

------------------
Pindead, Pindrop, Pinocchio, Pincushion, Pinwheel, Pinochle, PinM&M